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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iget-locked [2/6]
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:44:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> As for the binary compatibility... as long as we are source-compatible
> (i.e. keep ->read_inode2 and provide a compatible iget4()) - compatibility
> is not a problem. Anyone who ships binary-only modules is playing in the
> traffic and if they become a roadkill - it's Not Our Problem(tm). Think
> of it as evolution in action...

We need to keep iget4, but I don't think keeping ->read_inode2 source
compatiblitly is needed, it always was marked as a reiserfs cludge and
no one was supposed to use it.

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